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Laughing in Italian

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Make ‘Em Laugh was a wee bit challenging, considering I don’t really know any languages other than Spanish and English. Trying to pronounciate words I wasn’t familiar with was so difficult. I chose to do a joke in Italian. I chose this joke because I’ve always wanted to learn italian and what better way to start than by learning silly jokes? I’m sure we are all familiar with the saying “If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain.” This is a saying that I grew up hearing. To me it means that not everything will come when I want it, but I have to go out and work hard to get to where I want to be.

Italian Joke:
Se la montagna viene da te e tu non sei Maometto…
Corri, perchè è una frana!

English Translation:
If the mountain comes to you and you’re not Muhammad …
Run, because it’s a landslide!

I do wish I didn’t sound so monotone when telling the joke, but I felt like that was impossible for me because I was trying so hard to pronounce correctly. Once I’ll learn Italian I might be able to do it with a better flow.

Worth 2 stars

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Is that my face?

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My favorite assignment so far.. Picasso Yourself! For this assignment I used my super silly boyfriend and the ever-so-amazing Macbook Photobooth.

With this assignment came a lot of laughter! There are sooo many effects that you can make using photobooth (which comes as an app for any Mac computer owner).

I used “Strech” effect to make my face, and my boyfriends face all distorted. We laugh for a good 5 minutes after every picture we took. I felt that this effect was as close as I could get to Picasso’s Cubism. Cubism basically involved distortion of images, in particular faces and I present that in my photograph.

The beauty about photobooth and my MacBook is that the camera on my laptop is of a pretty good quality and photobooth takes amazing pictures so not much editing had to be done on the photo. I did have to crop the picture and I just did an auto enhancer and ta-da! It came out to look super silly all on its own. Gotta love art!

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Jumping in them moment

I choose to do the assignment Caught in Mid Action from the visual assignment bank. This assignment is worth 2 stars and I thought it was so much fun!

The assigment was to take a picture of something in mid action and make it appear different than it normally would. I took a picture of my boyfriend jumping mid-air and after a couple of shots, we looked back at the pictures and saw that he actually looked like he was levitating! Do you agree?

This assignment actually started as pure fun. I knew that I had to capture something in mid action so we started making games about who could jump the highest and even started making kicks while jumping on the deck. Like all of the other assignments for this class, this didn’t feel like an assignment. It started out with two people being goofy, and having a camera around (or in my case, my handy-dandy iPhone.

As a result of this assignment I ended up with tons of pictures on my phone with mid jumps (some falls, ouch!), and tons of laughter.

To do this assignment you need:
- a person: preferably a goofy friend/family member/stranger-danger
-a camera
-open space.

Steps:
first: Convince your goofy friend to do silly jumps, or runs, or anything that involves in motion with you.
second: Go outside to the open space and take you’re camera with you ( a camera phone will do the job as well)
third: Be goofy and have fun!
p.s. – Don’t forget to upload to flickr so you’re able to embed your images to your blog!

The most important things about ds106 to me is forgetting that things are actually assignments and think about it as having opportunities to go outside, have fun, exploring, being silly AND still knowing that I’m getting my work done.